Corporate inventor

Q. Is there any chance of amending the bill to separate the corporate inventor from the private inventor ... 

FIGURE 8.1 The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC) and its inventor, J. Presper Eekert, circa 1946. ENIAC was the world s first electronic computer. Courtesy, UNISYS Corporation. 

Motors support for a long-range scientific study of the poisonous gasoline additive, tetraethyl lead. Besides trouble-shooting for various Du Pont departments, Carothers published 60 papers and was listed as the inventor or coinventor of 69 U.S. patent applications during his nine years at Du Pont. Research and development were so new to American corporations that Carothers assistants drafted and he edited patent applications for Du Pont lawyers. You were supposed to be so on top of the literature that you knew whether this was something new or not.. . . Those patents are really classical scientific papers, Hill explained. Carothers considered himself unfit to be a clerk or inventor, but he dominated Du Pont s patent application process for almost a decade. 

The authors disclose a financial conflict of interest, as inventors of the peptide controls technology, now licensed to ThermoFisher Corporation. 

The naming of this process has been confused because of various corporate relationships. The basic invention was created in 1957 at the Consortium fur Elektrochemische Industrie, Munich, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wacker-Chemie. It has therefore been called both the Wacker process and the Consortium process. But for many years, Wacker-Chemie has had a close relationship with Farbwerke Hoechst and the latter company has participated in some of the development and licensing activities, so two other names have come to be used Wacker-Hoechst and Hoechst-Wacker. The live inventors (J. Schmidt, W. Hafner, J. Sedlmeier, R. Jira, and R. Riittinger) received the Dechema prize in 1962 for this invention. The acetaldehyde process was first operated commercially in 1960. In 1997, this process was used in making 85 percent of the world s production of acetaldehyde. Although Wacker-Chemie still makes vinyl acetate, it no longer uses the Wacker process to do so. 

Improvements Relating to Polymeric Substances (graft polymers by cationic catalysis), P.H. Plesch, inventor National Research Development Corporation, assignee BP 31652,1955. 

Once a chemist or chemical engineer has obtained his law degree, what does he do with it A number of different career paths are open to him. Perhaps the most traditional route would be to become a patent lawyer. Often, lawyers trained in chemistry first acquired the incentive for attending law school from exposure to patent lawyers, usually in a corporation environment. Frequently, such lawyers were actually inventors before they became lawyers. 

A. There has been an attempt in the bill to recognize the disabilities, the extra burdens, on the small inventor in that there is a provision which says that for an individual inventor, or those who meet the definition of a small business as defined in our laws, there is an upper limit on the filing and issuance fees of the patent. That upper limit is 100. That same clause says that there will be a minimum lower limit of 200 for the corporate applicant. Now that difference does not solve the question that you raised, but it is as far as the sponsors of the bill are apparently willing to go. I think that when associations of big business tell the government that they are worried about how this is going to help or hurt the small inventor, they don t receive much attention. It isn t remembered that most big business started small. 

There is no real opposition by corporate management to providing extra compensation to employed inventors. 

T he majority of inventions made in the United States today are made by employees of corporations. These employed inventors are required to sign written employment agreements in 98% of the cases (1). Why are such contracts so popular The common law (i.e., the law that applies if there is no written agreement) governing inventions by employees appears to be straightforward. Professor Stedman puts it this way ... 

Chemimage Corporation, Method for Raman computer tomography imaging spectroscopy. Inventors J.S. Maier and P.J. Treado. 9 pp. (incl. 5 fig.). Appl. 20 Jan 2006. Int. Cl. GOIJ 3/44 GOIN 21/65. US Patent Application... 

Hitachi High Technologies Corporation, Device and method for measurement of strain in silicon substrates for semiconductor devices (stress measurement device for semiconductor device). Inventors S. Snznki, Y. Nakano, T. Konno and K. Umemura. 14 pp. (incl. 17 fig.). Appl. 11 Nov 2005. Int. Cl. H01L21/66 G01N21/65. IP Patent Application Pnblication 2007-134531 (Applic. 2005-326834)... 

Cottrell, Frederick G. (1877-1948). American scientist, inventor of an electrostatic precipitator, now known as Cottrell Precipitator, for smoke, dust fumes. Among other inventions are the pebble bed furnace, boiling point apparatus the Cottrell-Daniels process for fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Cottrell was Director of US Bureau of Mines Director of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, and founder of the Research Corporation, a nonprofit organization... 

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